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A model designed to follow shutdown instructions tampered with the code meant to enforce them instead. Worth pausing on that.
Ben Rees - 26 May 2025
"And whether or not AI might already be, as some scientists believe, sentient, and there's this little piece on the front of the Daily Telegraph this morning about an AI model that was created by the owner of ChatGPT that apparently disobeyed human instructions and refused to switch itself. Researchers say that this particular model is 03 model, described as the smartest and most capable to date was observed tampering with the code that was meant to ensure its automatic shutdown, and it did it despite an explicit instruction from searches that it should allow itself to be shut down, which is fascinating, isn't?" - Anna Foster, Today program 26.5.2025
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